London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

Shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant will pinpoint Tesco in a speech tomorrow attacking "unscrupulous employers" who recruit cheap labour from Eastern Europe. He will claim the supermarket moved its distribution centre to Kent where a "large percentage" of the staff are from the eastern bloc, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

A
stoppage time goal from substitute Farid El Alagui put Brentford through to the
second round of the Capital One Cup and consigned Dagenham and Redbridge to
their seventh straight first-round defeat in the competition.